A man who allegedly misled police after he abandoned his dog and left it to die in his car has been charged with additional offences.<\/p>\n
Queensland Police had been investigating the alleged theft of a vehicle and Arnie the German shepherd from Wynnum on Saturday, November 8.<\/p>\n
The car was found by a member of the public parked on Amelia Street in Fortitude Valley on November 17 and Arnie was found dead inside the vehicle.<\/p>\n
Two days later, the 43-year-old owner of the vehicle, Nathan McKeown, was charged, with police alleging the car was not stolen.<\/p>\n
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Arnie the German shepherd was found dead inside the vehicle in Fortitude Valley. (Supplied)<\/p>\n
Police allege Mr McKeown drove the vehicle into Fortitude Valley at about 10:30pm on November 7 and left the vehicle with Arnie inside.<\/p>\n
The next day, he allegedly told his partner the vehicle had been stolen from Wynnum.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The woman, who police say was not aware her partner had allegedly taken the vehicle, reported the car and dog as stolen to police.\u00a0<\/p>\n
On November 20, Mr McKeown was charged with one count of breach of duty of care of animals by failing to provide under the Animal Protection Act.<\/p>\n
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Nathan McKeown with Arnie the German shepherd. (Supplied)<\/p>\n
Today, police said the charge had been amended to one count of injuring animals (causing injury or death) by night under the Criminal Code.<\/p>\n
Mr McKeown has also been charged with three counts of driving a motor vehicle without a driver’s licence, one count of driving under the influence and serious obstruction of police.<\/p>\n
He is expected to face a Brisbane Court later this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man who allegedly misled police after he abandoned his dog and left it to die in his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[20233,13329,183383,651,55312,183386,183385,43,183387,161303,44,1158,131345,94,701,41,39,42,40,183384],"class_list":{"0":"post-326565","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-animal","9":"tag-animal-cruelty","10":"tag-arnie","11":"tag-brisbane","12":"tag-criminal","13":"tag-fortitude-valley","14":"tag-german-sheperd","15":"tag-headlines","16":"tag-mckeown","17":"tag-nathan","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-police","20":"tag-police-charges","21":"tag-qld","22":"tag-queensland","23":"tag-top-news","24":"tag-top-stories","25":"tag-topnews","26":"tag-topstories","27":"tag-wynnum"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}